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A sect that emphasizes enlightenment through meditation and stresses simplicity and discipline.

(794 - 1100) Classical period which involved 300 years of developing a new culture; growth of large estates; arts and literature of china flourished; elaborate court life; personal diaries moved away from Chinese culture.

Ritual suicide or disembowelment in Japan; commonly known in West as hara-kiri; demonstrated courage and a means to restore family honor.

Period in which a Buddhist monk married into the Royal family, bringing Chinese influence to Japan.

Shogun who ended the "Warring States" period and expelled the European missionaries.

5 Multiple choice questions

Powerful family of regents in Japan that monopolized the regent positions. They dominated the government of Japan 794-1160; domination of civil administration was lost by the establishment of the first shogunate.

Nara Period

Kamikaze

Fujiwara Clan

Ronin

Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army

Kamikaze

Kampaku

Kami

Daimyo

The position the Fujiwara will take over which is like prime minister

Kami

Kampaku

Seppuku

Kamikaze

First shogun of Japan; he started the tradition of shogunates; he passed all his land to his oldest son.

Nara Period

Minamoto Yoritomo

Heian Period

Sengoku Period

Japanese overlord who established a shogunate headed by his family for more than 250 years, isolated Japan from the world and restricted marriage to members of the same class.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Kamikaze

Kampaku

Tokugawa Ieyasu

5 True/False questions

Sengoku Period → (794 - 1100) Classical period which involved 300 years of developing a new culture; growth of large estates; arts and literature of china flourished; elaborate court life; personal diaries moved away from Chinese culture.

True False

Kamikaze → The 'divine wind' that repelled the Mongolian threat.

True False

Asuka Period → Period in which the government wished to give the emperor more power, similar to the Chinese emperor.

True False

Bushido → Traditional code of the Japanese samurai which stressed courage and loyalty and self-discipline and simple living; "way of the warrior"

True False

Oda Nobunaga → Japanese lord who seized the imperial capital Kyoto in 1568 and sought to rule the empire by force; revolutionized Japanese warfare (firearms)